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Producer Tom Phillips is a bit of a mastermind at bringing great comedy together on screen. His work as writer on the excellent series Lucy & D.i.C shows he understands the importance of comedic s…
Julie Pacino’s dark fairytale I Live Here Now is a powerful and complex debut feature that places the audience in the space between dream and nightmare as Rose (Lucy Fry) finds herself in an impossibl…
With two feature films under his belt, Samuel Van Grinsven has quickly become a vital voice in Australian cinema. His feature debut, the lurid and sumptuous 2019 queer drama Sequin in a Blue Room, uti…
Writer-Director-Producer Azita Damandan writes about their short film Echoes, now in contention for the 2026 AACTA Awards. A Story of Exile, Memory, and Resistance Lyrical, haunting, and deeply res…
There’s something irresistible about the idea of running away from it all, isn’t there? The fantasy of leaving behind the noise, the politics, the mess of modern life, and finding some untouched corne…
The Sydney Underground Film Festival is back once more for another stellar year of underground, fringe cinema, short films and more. This years line-up includes an array of gloriously wild films inclu…
In 1970 the under-construction Westgate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed, the biggest industrial accident to ever occur in Australia. 35 people died. It changed the way the industry approached safety aro…
South Korean documentarian Kangyu Garam makes her feature-length debut with Lucky, Apartment, a film that feels both intimate and unsettling in the way it threads the ordinary with the unbearable. At…
There are zombie films that thrill you, and then there are those that haunt you — not with snarling teeth or sudden jump scares, but with quiet questions about love, grief, and the echoes we leave beh…
Alice Douard’s Love Letters (Des Preuves d’Amour) is the kind of film that sneaks up on you. On paper, it might look like another story about motherhood—a theme cinema has returned to countless times—…
The Circus Lion follows Samvel, a young wrestler from Western Sydney, who believes leaving his hometown is the only way to escape the weight of his grief. But as he runs from his pain, he discovers th…
Two Ugly People is the feature film debut from Peter Skinner. It follows the story of two strangers who, by chance, meet in a highway-side motel. But, as their stay lingers, they wonder if it was chan…